I have quite a few youngsters help me at various times of year. Vet students, 15 year old work experience kids, ag college students, the odd NEET from the county council.
Most are ok, some are very good, some are muppets. However the thread that runs between nearly all the youngsters that are...
I farm heavy silty clay with flints. No ditches, no land drains. Good strong wheat land, if unforgiving.
I've been trying to grow cover crops on and off for the last 9 yrs. With one exception, they have all been disastrous.
Summer cover crops in place of a spring crop, on the other hand, can...
Hi all, Please can you take 5 minutes to fill out my dissertation survey on vertical farming. Thanks.
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Smart technology in agriculture is progressing at a rate of knots with new innovations promising to optimise workflow, streamline processes and utilise every ounce of data available. CPM digs into some of these unfolding technologies.
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In this special edition of Pulse Progress, CPM explores how the development of a new modelling tool could revolutionise the forecasting of maturity and yield in vining peas.
By Charlotte Cunningham
Anyone who’s grown vining peas will...
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A difficult season for herbicide application is likely to have resulted in an unwanted bounty of weeds in oilseed rape crops. With the final window having arrived for mastering some control, CPM digs deeper into the role of water...
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Seed shortages, mancozeb uncertainty and more resistant blight strains are set to compound the difficulties caused by one of the wettest autumn and winter periods on record. CPM reports.
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Potato growers are facing more than...
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With soil organic matter levels reaching an all time low in some areas, utilising the benefits of molasses could help growers to start to rebuild these vital stocks. CPM finds out more.
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It’s often said that a...
Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland
Potash is a key nutrient for potato crops, impacting on the yield and quality of tubers, as well as the general health of individual plants.
It is involved in regulating the amount of water in the plant, because in the absence of sufficient...
I developed tooth ache on Tuesday (little warnings for a couple of years.)
Got worse & worse all week & now aching eyes & blocked ears. Can a tooth cause this.
Or
Have I had a bug which has weaked my immune system letting the tooth decay develop quickly.
How cheap chicken ran rampant across Britain
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What are the figures like for fattening cull cows?
I’ve quite a lot of mature hay that needs using up, plus a lot of straw too. It would be good to pass it through an animal to turn it into FYM. I’d need to supplement the hay with cake / molasses etc but was wondering what the figures look like...
With:
1 veganism on the wane,
2 decreasing health concerns surrounding saturated fat and,
3 increasing concerns around the health effects of ‘industrial seed oils’,
is it time someone produced some crisps cooked in beef dripping?
I don’t think there are any available, correct me if I’m...
Have any/many of you diversified with small scale pick your own?? We are going to have a go this year with a pumpkin patch and some sunflowers, but i am keen to maybe try a couple of acres of spuds?? If not PYO, then sold at the farm gate. Haven’t a clue where to even get seed from ( Accept...
A biggish fat lamb (50kg?) is worth £160. (the same as a ton of barley)
A small fat beast (500kg) is worth £1600. (the same as 10 tons of barley).
Has the value of finished stock compared to the price of grain ever been a high during the last 10,000 years?
Mulling things over … now I love farming ( mostly) and as some of you know, I’ve said it’s all I ever wanted to do .
But times are changing and with the weather on top of poor ground plus my age and aches and pains, I’ve been wondering if it’s time to say enough
Part of me feels guilty as if I...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The Environment Agency has launched a campaign to highlight the risks of growing high-risk crops in the south west of England.
The agency said the high-risk crops, which include maize, fodder beet and potatoes, can lead to pollution and flooding...
Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) is calling on the UK government to introduce a Horticultural Buyers Code of Practice.
The union is calling for the implementation of a code of practice as part of a package of recommendations to “underpin...
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